Obama: Supreme Court Won’t Overturn Obamacare Law
President Barack Obama today, during a televised press conference, said in no uncertain terms that he doesn’t believe the Supreme Court will overturn Obamacare, the abortion funding and rationing law pro-life groups oppose.
“We are confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld,” Obama said at a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. He added that the high court would be supposedly guilty of “judicial activism” by striking down the Obamacare law a majority of Americans oppose.
“I’m confident the Supreme Court will uphold the law,” Obama said. “That’s not just my opinion, but also the opinion of legal experts across the entire political spectrum.”
“The reason is because in accordance with precedent out there, it’s constitutional,” Obama said. “That’s not just my opinion, by the way. That’s the opinion of legal experts across the ideological spectrum, including two very conservative appellate court justices who said this wasn’t even a close case.”
Obama said overturning the law would constitute “an unprecedented, extraordinary step” because a majority of members of Congress approved it...
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